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Post#901 at 03-15-2011 12:10 PM by Justin '77 [at Meh. joined Sep 2001 #posts 12,182]
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Quote Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59 View Post
Geez. I saw over-4 diesel for the first time only this afternoon.
Heh. It's 4.189 out here at the end of things. Might have even gone over 4 before the new year -- I can't remember, not being a buyer of diesel these days, myself.
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Post#902 at 03-15-2011 12:40 PM by Brian Beecher [at Downers Grove, IL joined Sep 2001 #posts 2,937]
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Quote Originally Posted by Justin '77 View Post
Heh. It's 4.189 out here at the end of things. Might have even gone over 4 before the new year -- I can't remember, not being a buyer of diesel these days, myself.
Don't know what the "tipping point" will really be to force a lot of change, but I am inclined to believe that gas prices will not decrease much until living space is revamped to the point where most folks don't absolutely have to drive for survival. Most today except those living in large urbvan centers simply have no choice. But there probably is a lot less joyriding going on these days even though by the time the traditional peak travel season gets here in a couple of months we will be told the opposite.







Post#903 at 04-11-2011 01:16 PM by Justin '77 [at Meh. joined Sep 2001 #posts 12,182]
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Well. It finally broke the mark out here. $4.029 for the "cheap" stuff. Be sure to fill up before you drive out to the beach.
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Post#904 at 04-11-2011 01:30 PM by The Grey Badger [at Albuquerque, NM joined Sep 2001 #posts 8,876]
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Quote Originally Posted by Justin '77 View Post
Well. It finally broke the mark out here. $4.029 for the "cheap" stuff. Be sure to fill up before you drive out to the beach.
Buy stock in Schwinn.







Post#905 at 04-11-2011 02:01 PM by Justin '77 [at Meh. joined Sep 2001 #posts 12,182]
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Quote Originally Posted by The Grey Badger View Post
Buy stock in Schwinn.
Ah yes. With all the piles of money coming out my ass. I was wondering what to do with that stuff...

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The end of the recovery has arrived

Americans cutting back on gas consumption.

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With the price of gas above $3.50 a gallon in all but one state, there are signs that Americans are cutting back on driving, reversing a steady increase in demand for fuel as the economy improves.

Gas sales have fallen for five straight weeks, the first time that has happened since November, according to MasterCard SpendingPulse, which tracks spending at 140,000 service stations nationwide.

Before the decline, demand was increasing for two months. Some analysts had expected the trend to continue because the economic recovery is picking up, adding 216,000 jobs in March.

"More people are going to work," said John Gamel, director of gasoline research for MasterCard. "That means more people are driving and they should be buying more gas."

Instead, about 70 percent of the nation's major gas-station chains say sales have fallen, according to a March survey by the Oil Price Information Service. More than half reported a drop of 3 percent or more — the sharpest since the summer of 2008, when gas soared past $4 a gallon.

This year, gas prices have shot up as unrest in North Africa and the Middle East rattled energy markets and increased global demand for crude oil squeezed supplies. A gallon of unleaded regular costs $3.77 on average, and only Wyoming has an average lower than $3.50. Gas is already 41 cents more expensive then at this point in 2008, when it peaked at $4.11 in July.

Most analysts are sticking to forecasts of a high of $4 a gallon, though some have predicted $5 gas.

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Even if demand for gas keeps falling in the U.S., it probably won't be enough to force the price down. That's because worldwide demand for crude oil keeps rising.

Global demand for oil is about 87 million barrels per day, matching its peak from 2007. It is expected to grow to more than 88 million barrels a day by year's end, with most of the increase coming from China. At the same time, supply is shrinking because of uprisings in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East.

In the United States, people are watching their local gas stations a little more carefully. Some are even getting rid of their old gas-guzzler.

Andrea Meyer of Manteno, Ill., has done both. She buys gas in the middle of the week because prices seem to jump over the weekend. And she recently sold her 2005 Chevy Envoy SUV and bought a 2011 Chevy Cruze, which gets 30 miles per gallon. She still spent about $200 on gas for the new car from mid-February to mid-March.
As noted above, investing in bicycle stocks is likely a good idea now.







Post#907 at 04-22-2011 11:41 PM by The Grey Badger [at Albuquerque, NM joined Sep 2001 #posts 8,876]
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You think we have it bad? A list-friend from New Zealand writes "Current petrol price 91 octane is about NZ$2.19/L - so US$6.65/Gallon if my maths is correct."
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."

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Post#908 at 04-23-2011 12:51 AM by Justin '77 [at Meh. joined Sep 2001 #posts 12,182]
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Quote Originally Posted by The Grey Badger View Post
You think we have it bad? A list-friend from New Zealand writes "Current petrol price 91 octane is about NZ$2.19/L - so US$6.65/Gallon if my maths is correct."
Yah. And holy crap! I was poking around with yahoo's currency converter gizmo today and discovered the USD has tanked so badly already that the Ozzie dollar is worth more than it! I mean, the Loonie I could understand -- it's always been close. And rubles are back to about where they were four years ago, too (and back on that upward creep that we got to enjoy our whole three years there). But Ozzies were like $1.30AUD to the USD all of three years ago! WTF??*

Thank goodness we didn't change the entire proceeds from selling our house into American bucks.


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*Of course, we all know exactly W the F is.
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Quote Originally Posted by Justin '77 View Post
Yah. And holy crap! I was poking around with yahoo's currency converter gizmo today and discovered the USD has tanked so badly already that the Ozzie dollar is worth more than it! I mean, the Loonie I could understand -- it's always been close. And rubles are back to about where they were four years ago, too (and back on that upward creep that we got to enjoy our whole three years there). But Ozzies were like $1.30AUD to the USD all of three years ago! WTF??*

Thank goodness we didn't change the entire proceeds from selling our house into American bucks.


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Come on bro. You know there is no inflation happening here. Some folks even have charts saying so!







Post#910 at 04-23-2011 08:44 AM by Marx & Lennon [at '47 cohort still lost in Falwelland joined Sep 2001 #posts 16,715]
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Quote Originally Posted by Copperfield View Post
Come on bro. You know there is no inflation happening here. Some folks even have charts saying so!
I guess you don't know what inflation is then. Prices rising due to supply and demand imbalances are not inflation. If those rises lead to general rises in prices and wages, then you have inflation. I've actually experienced inflation. We don't have that now ... at least not yet.

FWIW, changes in exchange rates aren't inflation either. They are also a supply and demand issue, except the demand is for dollars rather that commodities. Right now, the world has plenty of dollars.
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Post#911 at 04-23-2011 11:26 AM by Justin '77 [at Meh. joined Sep 2001 #posts 12,182]
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Quote Originally Posted by Marx & Lennon View Post
I guess you don't know what inflation is then. Prices rising due to supply and demand imbalances are not inflation. If those rises lead to general rises in prices and wages, then you have inflation.
Wow. Someone sure doesn't know what inflation is...

To clear up, inflation is a monetary phenomenon, expressing itself generally in rising prices overall, but specifically having its cause in a decrease in the value of a particular money.

When we have the USD decreasing in value relative to not only stuff (a contention so obvious at this point as to only evade the willfully-blind), but also other monies... that's textbook inflation.

A 'change in demand' for one currency over another is also not a primary driver -- much as you seem to want to make it be. Why has demand changed? Why do people see the USD as so much less-desireable a place to store whatever wealth they manage to get? Because they recognize that it is an inflating currency -- that is to say, because they see that wealth stored in USD is a losing proposition, relative to Ozzies, Kiwis, Loonies, Yen, Baht, Real, ... even Ringgit and Russian-fucking-Rubles (be very embarrassed).

Again, the shift-of-demand specifically in currencies is a sign of inflation. Not a precursor to it (although it may well be a near-precursor to hyper-inflation; not that such is assured by any means, of course).
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Post#912 at 04-23-2011 05:08 PM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,281]
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Quote Originally Posted by Copperfield View Post
Come on bro. You know there is no inflation happening here. Some folks even have charts saying so!
Well, I do know that the steak I paid $26.95 for two years ago is $32.95 today. The glass of wine sipped with it has gone from $7 to $8. And the gas to get to Jake's Grill is $4.05...up from around $3 or so in '09.

That looks pretty inflationary to me!
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Post#913 at 04-23-2011 07:32 PM by The Wonkette [at Arlington, VA 1956 joined Jul 2002 #posts 9,209]
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Quote Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59 View Post
Well, I do know that the steak I paid $26.95 for two years ago is $32.95 today. The glass of wine sipped with it has gone from $7 to $8. And the gas to get to Jake's Grill is $4.05...up from around $3 or so in '09.

That looks pretty inflationary to me!
I've noticed an uptick in restaurant prices also. The feast for four at Chicken Out, the frappacino at Starbucks, all higher than 2 years ago.

Two stations near me are charging $4.13 per gallon. I tanked up yesterday, and the retail price was about $3.96, but I got 30 cents off due to shopping at a partnering store (I think Chas '88 has the same deal).
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Post#914 at 04-23-2011 08:14 PM by Justin '77 [at Meh. joined Sep 2001 #posts 12,182]
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Quote Originally Posted by The Wonkette View Post
Two stations near me are charging $4.13 per gallon...
Wow. I'll quit bitching about prices out here at the End of All Things, I guess. We're only at $4.03/gal at the moment. I had no idea anywhere continental outside California was as bad as here. That really sucks, Jenny.
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Quote Originally Posted by Marx & Lennon View Post
I guess you don't know what inflation is then. Prices rising due to supply and demand imbalances are not inflation. If those rises lead to general rises in prices and wages, then you have inflation. I've actually experienced inflation. We don't have that now ... at least not yet.

FWIW, changes in exchange rates aren't inflation either. They are also a supply and demand issue, except the demand is for dollars rather that commodities. Right now, the world has plenty of dollars.
Yep yep. As we all know there is no general rise in prices.







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I think what's going on is that the "experts" are bending over backwards to not mention, or at least to downplay, the "I-word"...out of fear that doing otherwise would crash the economy (further).

Heh- they're probably right.
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Quote Originally Posted by Justin '77 View Post
Wow. I'll quit bitching about prices out here at the End of All Things, I guess. We're only at $4.03/gal at the moment. I had no idea anywhere continental outside California was as bad as here. That really sucks, Jenny.
Don't cry to hard for me. Those two stations are consistently 10-20 cents higher than most other nearby stores. Again, my last fill-up, I "only" paid about $3.65 or so a gallon, thanks to my 30 cents discounts.

Finally, since I drive a Prius, high gas prices don't impact me that much.
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Post#918 at 04-25-2011 02:46 PM by Chas'88 [at In between Pennsylvania & Pennsyltucky joined Nov 2008 #posts 9,432]
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Quote Originally Posted by The Wonkette View Post
Two stations near me are charging $4.13 per gallon. I tanked up yesterday, and the retail price was about $3.96, but I got 30 cents off due to shopping at a partnering store (I think Chas '88 has the same deal).
Yep, I have the same deal.

Last I checked gas stations up where I live were $3.85. But where I work it got up to $4.05. It might have changed though, since I haven't driven in the last few days.

Having a stick-shift Mazda with very good gas mileage has been good overall these past few years, but not so great on my Grad Assistant's pay (6 thousand something for the academic year--luckily next year it'll double). I'm just glad that I've made it through this year without having to take out more loans to add to my undergraduate debt.

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You think we have it bad? Charlie Stross reports from Scotland "...since I last dusted off the car the price of petrol has hit £1.44 per litre at motorway service stations (about US $8.60 per US gallon for you foreign Johnnies, in case you were wondering — we're not far off $10/gal)."
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Post#920 at 04-26-2011 10:58 PM by Justin '77 [at Meh. joined Sep 2001 #posts 12,182]
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Quote Originally Posted by The Grey Badger View Post
You think we have it bad? Charlie Stross reports from Scotland "...since I last dusted off the car the price of petrol has hit £1.44 per litre at motorway service stations (about US $8.60 per US gallon for you foreign Johnnies, in case you were wondering — we're not far off $10/gal)."
Yah; no big surprise. Gas outside Paris was over $7.50/gal (as it trigged out) back in December of 2009. There are plenty of places with gas prices higher than the States.

(In our part of which, by the by, we're now seeing no less than $4.099/gal.)
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Upp.. Now the lowest out here as of this morning is $4.119/gal
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Surprising to me, yesterday the prices had dropped ten cents over night. So instead of being 3.99 it was 3.89. What the hell is going on folks?

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Quote Originally Posted by Chas'88 View Post
Surprising to me, yesterday the prices had dropped ten cents over night. So instead of being 3.99 it was 3.89. What the hell is going on folks?

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There is a possibility that the run-up was premature this year, and the peak has arrived too early for the specultors to make their Big Bucks(TM). Boo-hoo, I say.
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The Memo price in Ohio today was $4.19. I say memo price because in Ohio all the stations go up to the same price within a few hours.







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-Yesterday [10 MAY 2011], at $3.799/gallon.

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-Yesterday [4 MAR 2011], at $3.399/gallon.
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Today [15 JAN 2011] at $2.959/gallo.
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-Now [24 JUL 2011] at $2.499/gallon.
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-Now [7 JUN] at $2.599/gallon.
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-Now [19 MAY 2010] at $2.799/gallon.
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-Now [6 DEC 2009] at $2.599/gallon.
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-Still [25 APR 2009] at $1.999/gallon.
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-Now [8 DEC 2008] at $1.559/gallon.
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